Picture Quiz - Page 19

formerjughead · #**451** (**permalink**) October 8th, 2009, 02:37 AM

Three of the men in the picture were awarded the Navy Cross; but, that is not the award they are recieving in the picture.
All four are being decorated for their actions during the Battle of Guadalcanal.
Only one did not survive the war.
Three are prior service Army.
One is an Aviator; but, that's not what he is receiving an award is for.
Two have roads at Camp Pendleton named after them.
One has a rifle range, at Camp Pendleton, named after him.
Two became action figures.

JagdtigerI · #**452** (**permalink**) October 8th, 2009, 02:44 AM

Well if you put it that way then.....

"2dLt Mitchell Paige, third from left, and PltSgt John Basilone, extreme right, received the Medal of Honor at a parade at Camp Balcombe, Australia, on 21 May 1943. MajGen Vandegrift, left, received his medal in a White House ceremony the previous 5 February, while Col Merritt A. Edson was decorated 31 December 1943. Note the 1st Marine Division patches on the right shoulders of each participant"

formerjughead · #**453** (**permalink**) October 8th, 2009, 02:49 AM

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Originally Posted by JagdtigerI

Well if you put it that way then.....

"2dLt Mitchell Paige, third from left, and PltSgt John Basilone, extreme right, received the Medal of Honor at a parade at Camp Balcombe, Australia, on 21 May 1943. MajGen Vandegrift, left, received his medal in a White House ceremony the previous 5 February, while Col Merritt A. Edson was decorated 31 December 1943. Note the 1st Marine Division patches on the right shoulders of each participant"

Finally......I was starting to feel bad

Slipdigit · #**454** (**permalink**) October 8th, 2009, 01:05 PM

I had started looking but didn't have the time to finish. I recognized Basilone and 1st Marine patch, and thought that was Vandegrift on the left, but didn't know the rest and didn't have time to verify the first I named.

good job Jadg

JagdtigerI · #**455** (**permalink**) October 8th, 2009, 02:29 PM

Thanks guys here is the next one, not sure how hard it will be

Visukinttu · #**456** (**permalink**) October 8th, 2009, 02:51 PM

Marcario Garcia. Receives medal of honor from President Harry Truman.

JagdtigerI · #**457** (**permalink**) October 8th, 2009, 04:32 PM

Yep, good job

Visukinttu · #**458** (**permalink**) October 9th, 2009, 04:03 PM

Ok. My turn. Which gun is this?

brndirt1 · #**459** (**permalink**) October 9th, 2009, 07:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Visukinttu

Ok. My turn. Which gun is this?

That is a section of the Borschard pistol, the precussor to the Luger. I probably spelled his name wrong.

Visukinttu · #**460** (**permalink**) October 9th, 2009, 09:26 PM

True. C93 Borchardt. The gun that had the first operational toggle-lock and precessor of P-08 Luger/Parabellum.

Your turn.

brndirt1 · #**461** (**permalink**) October 9th, 2009, 09:41 PM

I knew I spelled Hugo's name wrong. Forgot the final "t" didn't I? Oh well, it didn't look right but I figured you'd know who I meant!

Ok, who is the famous Nazi leading this parade?

Visukinttu · #**462** (**permalink**) October 9th, 2009, 10:16 PM

Picture is not one of the clearest that I´ve seen, but I would take a pure guess and go with Rudolf Hess?

brndirt1 · #**463** (**permalink**) October 9th, 2009, 10:20 PM

It doesn't expand very well, and I apologize for that. But nope, not Hess. A hint, he never fought in either war. At least I don't think he was old enough to have fought in The Great War.

R Leonard · #**464** (**permalink**) October 10th, 2009, 01:44 AM

I'll take a stab, how about Horst Wessel

brndirt1 · #**465** (**permalink**) October 10th, 2009, 01:56 AM

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Originally Posted by R Leonard

I'll take a stab, how about Horst Wessel

Dang, you got him. I thought that would take longer, but I should have known it wouldn't really.

It was he who wrote the lyrics to the song; Die Fahne hoch ("Raise the flag"), which became The Horst Wessel Lied after his demise. While he was shacked up with a prostitute, it is unlikely he was her pimp. When he was shot in the face he was having a "rent dispute" with his landlady who was a well known pro-communist party type.

Goto:

YouTube - horst wessel original sound and lyrics.

That was the song "drowned out" by La Marseillaise in the movie Casablanca.

Yer up Mr. Leonard!

R Leonard · #**466** (**permalink**) October 10th, 2009, 03:22 PM

Who is this gent and what is his claim to fame in the footnotes of World War II? Extra points if you can name where and roughly when the photo was taken.

Rich

R Leonard · #**467** (**permalink**) October 12th, 2009, 12:32 AM

okay, hint number 1. Posing in front of an F4F, obviously aboard a carrier, gives you some idea of this gent's persuasion, his stock and trade, as it were. The event for which he is known occurred about a month before this picture was taken.

Slipdigit · #**468** (**permalink**) October 12th, 2009, 03:43 AM

Alexander Vraciu, an Ace in a day?

No, wait, he apparently already is an ace in the pic.

R Leonard · #**469** (**permalink**) October 12th, 2009, 11:31 AM

No, picture was taken long, long, before Vraciu, ever entered combat.

Slipdigit · #**470** (**permalink**) October 13th, 2009, 01:35 AM

YOu're gonna have to throw another bone

JagdtigerI · #**471** (**permalink**) October 13th, 2009, 01:37 AM

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Originally Posted by R Leonard

No, picture was taken long, long, before Vraciu, ever entered combat.

What is the definition of "long, long"

R Leonard · #**472** (**permalink**) October 13th, 2009, 01:50 AM

A little more than 3 years and 2 months after this picture, he became commander of a fighter-bomber squadron when its CO, Commander Porter W Maxwell, was killed in action.

". . . long, long, before Vraciu ever entered combat " When Vraciu was awarded his naval aviator wings, this picture had already been taken and the event for which this gent is remembered was three months in the past. Vraciu did not enter combat until sixteen months after this picture was taken. In a war of but 45 months (for the US, anyway), 16 months is a "long, long" time and a new generation of fighter planes later.

mcoffee · #**473** (**permalink**) October 13th, 2009, 12:29 PM

Walter Haas scored the first USN kill of an A6M on 7 May 42 during Battle of Coral Sea.

If I have that right, he also jury-rigged a shoulder harness into the F4F after smashing his head on the gunsight in a couple of ditchings.

R Leonard · #**474** (**permalink**) October 14th, 2009, 01:30 AM

Yes indeedy, Walt Haas of VF-42. This shot was taken on USS Hornet in front of the victory credits photo op plane on the way back to Pearl about a week after the battle. I never knew he worked on a jury rig a shoulder harness. Early F4F's, even the -4's, only had lap belts. My father remarked that the VF-42/VF-3 types who ended up on Hornet after the dust had settled were surprised that the VF-8 F4F-4's had shoulder harnesses, but they were also jury rigged and installed aboard the ship. It was not until mid summer 1942 that F4Fs were coming off the production line with factory installed shoulder belts.

Looks like your turn!

Rich

mcoffee · #**475** (**permalink**) October 14th, 2009, 12:06 PM

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Originally Posted by R Leonard

Yes indeedy, Walt Haas of VF-42. This shot was taken on USS Hornet in front of the victory credits photo op plane on the way back to Pearl about a week after the battle. I never knew he worked on a jury rig a shoulder harness. Early F4F's, even the -4's, only had lap belts. My father remarked that the VF-42/VF-3 types who ended up on Hornet after the dust had settled were surprised that the VF-8 F4F-4's had shoulder harnesses, but they were also jury rigged and installed aboard the ship. It was not until mid summer 1942 that F4Fs were coming off the production line with factory installed shoulder belts.

At first I thought that was the 'event' you were referencing, then I found the Zeke reference. Apparently, he was pretty tall, note the 'high water' pants in your photo, and had a couple of ditchings in a short period of time which led him to pursue the harness (google is your friend!).